Lenovo Website Hacked, Lizard Squad Claims Offense

Lenovo’s website was hacked and it seems like Lizard Squad has taken credit in the offense.

Starting at 4PM on Wednesday, users visiting the site saw a slideshow of youths in front of webcam with the song Breaking Free from High School Musical playing on the background.

Lizard Squad posted on its Twitter page the song’s lyrics, which perceptibly inferred their claim of the breach. The hackers also posted number of screengrabs of an email between Lenovo employees regarding the Superfish software.

Lizard Squad has also taken credit for several high-profile outages, including attacks that took down Sony’s Corp’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s  Corp’s Xbox Live network last month.

Taking into account, the attack happened after the U.S. government instructed Lenovo customers to remove pre-installed virus-like software Superfish on laptops that makes the devices more vulnerable to attacks. But with this incident now that the attackers were almost able to hijack Lenovo’s domain record, it is embarrassing for the company especially that they are in security concerns over Superfish.

“As soon as we at CloudFlare noticed, we seized the account and worked with Lenovo to restore service while they worked to recover their domain,” Marc Rogers, Principal Security Researcher at CloudFlare, said in an email to Reuters.

The Department of Homeland Security said in an alert on Friday that the Superfish program makes users vulnerable to a type of cyber-attack known as SSL spoofing. It allows remote attackers to read encrypted web traffic, redirect traffic from official websites to spoofs, and perform other attacks.

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